Sentence examples for cannot master from inspiring English sources

Her character is killed when she is thrown from the horse Warwinds, which she symbolically cannot master, in scenes enacted in masterful wide images and close-ups.

We cannot master the noises coming out of Spain.

Programs which cannot master these areas are likely to go out of business.

"We cannot master nature, nature rules us," said Renate Kuenast, the Greens' parliamentary leader.

Booth, the younger brother who cannot master the con of the street game, shoplifts, quite spectacularly.

The gush of filth is a reminder that we have surrendered our independence to a technology we cannot master.

"Greatness but an incident, the dominance of genius but a puppet show, an absurd wrestling match against an iron rule which we can, at best, perceive but which we cannot possibly master".

Foreigners cannot possibly master the art of cooking Thai food, many Thais say, because they did not grow up wandering through vast, wet markets filled with the cornucopia of Thai produce, or pulling at the apron strings of grandmothers and maids who imparted the complex and subtle balance of ingredients required for the perfect curry or chili paste.

Outsiders cannot possibly master the art of cooking Thai food, many Thais say, because they did not grow up wandering through vast wet markets filled with the cornucopia of Thai produce or pulling at the apron strings of grandmothers and maids who imparted the complex and subtle balance of ingredients required for the perfect curry or chili paste.

Renewing the face of the earth, then, is an enterprise not of imposing some private human vision on a passive nature but of living in such a way as to bring more clearly to light the interconnectedness of all things and their dependence on what we cannot finally master or understand.

One of the things we as Christians ought to be saying in the context of the ecological debate is that human reasoning in its proper and fullest sense requires an awareness of our participation in the material processes of the world and thus a sense of its own involvement in what it cannot finally master.